Arizona Skies

Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture, including oddball curiosities, local legends, crazy characters, and peculiar roadside attractions.

"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Growing up in Arizona equates to magical inspiration. Experience hot summers and beautiful evenings. Envision the epic thunderstorms roll on through the Arizona skies. Welcome to a new and exciting world of words. A myriad of emotions and experiences are in these poems. Every poem takes you on a short journey. There are heartfelt poems and hidden messages of hope and faith. Enjoy fun and enjoyable pieces as well as macabre and sinister tales of epic proportions. Immerse yourself in poems like “The little cricket who lived in my shoe”, “Broken to Pieces”, “The smell of sage and cedar” and so much more.

Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of “La Bamba” became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band’s new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong. Across four decades, Los Lobos (Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, and Steve Berlin) have ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from rockabilly to primal punk rock, R&B to country and folk, Mexican son jarocho to Tex-Mex conjunto and Latin American cumbia. Their sui generis sound has sold millions of albums and won acclaim from fans and critics alike, including three Grammy Awards. Los Lobos, the first book on this unique band, traces the entire arc of the band’s career. Music journalist Chris Morris draws on new interviews with Los Lobos members and their principal collaborators, as well as his own reporting since the early 1980s, to recount the evolution of Los Lobos’s music. He describes the creation of every album, lingering over highlights such as How Will the Wolf Survive?, La Pistola y El Corazon, and Kiko, while following the band’s trajectory from playing Mexican folk music at weddings and dances in East L.A. to international stardom and major-label success, as well as their independent work in the new millennium. Giving one of the longest-lived and most-honored American rock bands its due, Los Lobos celebrates the expansive reach and creative experimentalism that few other bands can match.

' Heroes of Tiananmen ' Heroes, you who had given your lives for China you believed in, your China one of justice, dignity, free of misrule in the embrace of the Heavenly sky Heroes, you the students who believed China can be free, democratic as elsewhere in the Free World in the embrace of worldwide liberty Heroes, you on the Tiananmen Square crashed down brutally on the 4th of June with assault rifles and tanks, lots of blood and against all human values dear to humankind Heroes, unforgettable, forever to last together with your Goddess of Freedom which lasted only a few days before being demolished Goddess of Freedom, the sister of the Statue of Liberty !! Heroes, you who fought for a new China despite of some people saying disturbingly China can never be democratic, no chance On the contrary, democracy is for all !! Heroes, you the scintillating Soul of China who believed firmly and determinedly no nation can be denied liberty, freedoms and dignity Your soul, Soul of China is on the march !! Heroes, you the students of Tiananmen revolution the one of 1989 which moved hearts of the entire nation, eternal hearts of love Yes, freedom, love and brotherhood shall win one day ! Heroes, you were brutally crashed down on one early morning, at a peaceful dawn with your blood and lives taken away You're the monument of free China to come !! Heroes, they used tanks and army against you while you wanted just freedom innocently and dignity for every single individual Your cause is not dead, your cause is alive, more than ever !! Heroes, your '89 Heavenly Democracy Movement is written down in history of China Kept in the soul of the nation forever, the Soul of China written down in China's chapters as finest ever Heroes, you shall be the winner in the end and the Goddess of Freedom shall return to her rightful place on the Tiananmen Square both, under the bright Sun and the shimmering stars Heroes, know it the entire Free World tributes you You're part of the great family of nations who chose for freedoms, liberty and dignity You're written down in the annals of the world !!